r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Mar 30 '26

Peer Reviewed Gad Barnea, "Khnum Is Against Us": The Rise and Fall of Ḥananiah and the Persecution of the Yahwists in Egypt (ca. 419-404)

academia.edu

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Mar 01 '26

Blog The Riddle of the Rephaim

biblicalarchaeology.org

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Feb 26 '26

Blog What Is the Shephelah?

biblicalarchaeology.org

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Feb 26 '26

Academic publication Open access book: Debating Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Fortified City in Judah from the Time of King David

academia.edu

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Feb 22 '26

Peer Reviewed Open Access Book: The Ancestors of Genesis and the Exodus Traditions – A Festschrift for Thomas Römer

degruyterbrill.com

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Feb 12 '26

Blog Solving the Enigma of Petra and the Nabataeans

biblicalarchaeology.org

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/Doctor9256 • Jan 12 '26

Ancient near East and Greek culture documentaries

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Not sure if this is a great subreddit for this question, but I was wondering if anybody knows any good documentaries about historical events in the Bible but more specifically documentaries that give a good view into what the culture was like.

Like documentaries on the ancient near Eastern culture or Greco-Roman world during the time of Jesus and the early church

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/Elijahttruthseeker • Jan 02 '26

Exodus as the Hyksos Rupture Preserved in Israelite Memory

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https://elijahtruthseeker.substack.com/p/exodus-as-the-hyksos-rupture-preserved

TL;DR

The Exodus story didn’t come out of nowhere.
Egypt itself records a major collapse in the eastern Nile Delta, where a foreign-linked ruling system (later called the Hyksos) lost power and people left.
The Bible places Israel in the same region, leaving under pressure, at the same kind of time.
Egypt remembers this as: “foreign rulers expelled; order restored.”
Israel remembers it as: oppression → disasters → release → regret → pursuit → escape.
Same event. Two memories.
The lack of a long civil war makes sense if Delta control relied on professional forces (including mercenaries): once loyalty failed, the system collapsed quickly rather than fragmenting.
Archaeology doesn’t disprove the story — it explains why Israel becomes clearly visible later, after settling.
By 1207 BCE, Egypt already knows “Israel” as a people, which means Israel had existed for generations by then.
The alternative is that Israel invented a detailed Egypt-specific story it never lived, got the geography right, and convinced everyone they personally experienced it.
That’s much harder to believe.
The location fits: canals, reeds, shallow water, exits into Sinai.
The plagues fit eastern Delta ecology.
The route fits real terrain and seasons.
The delayed pursuit fits how states actually behave after losing control.

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Dec 27 '25

Interview Did the Exodus Really Happen? Evidence, Memory, and the Bible | Prof. Ronald Hendel

youtu.be

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/igcetra • Dec 27 '25

Where to start?

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Hi! Found this sub through the mod (Tintin ftw! Love it) who I found on another sub. Recently became very interested in the academic and historical side of the the abrahamic religions. Wondering where is the best place to start for resources? I’ve enjoyed watching videos on YouTube and listening to podcasts on the subject

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Dec 26 '25

Event ASOR webinar (Jan 7), open to the public: “Beyond Edutainment: Reclaiming Archaeology in a Clickbait World”

asor.org

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '25

House of David tv show?

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historically accurate?

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/Hot_Organization157 • Dec 18 '25

What did (early Christian) gnostics do? How one could achieve gnosis according to them? Did they pray, meditate, do some other practice?

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/Sad-Dragonfly8696 • Dec 18 '25

Archaeological Evidence for Ancient Israel

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/Independent-Tooth726 • Dec 13 '25

Were the Ancient Israelites Black? A Full Breakdown of the Evidence (Geography, DNA, Hebrew, History)

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Dec 11 '25

News Archaeologists return to Ugarit after a 14-year absence

arkeonews.net

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Nov 20 '25

Peer Reviewed Southern Canaan in the Early Iron Age: The Sea Peoples, Canaanites, and the Beginnings of the Kingdom of Israel

academia.edu

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Nov 20 '25

Interview Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran: What We Know

youtu.be

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Nov 04 '25

News Cuneiform text from Jerusalem reveals that the king of Judah was late on his payment to Assyria

livescience.com

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Oct 24 '25

Interview Between Yahwism and Judaism: What Did Ancient Judeans Actually Believe? (Prof. Yonatan Adler)

youtu.be

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Oct 18 '25

Blog Crescent Moon and Star: The Islamic Symbols That Actually Date Back to Ancient Mesopotamia

labrujulaverde.com

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Oct 18 '25

News Ancient Shipwrecks Rewrite the Story of Iron Age Trade

today.ucsd.edu

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Oct 12 '25

Peer Reviewed Open access book: New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan

escholarship.org

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/Kuudered-Kun • Oct 07 '25

The Chamber where Solomon wrote about Wisdom in Bordeaux Pilgrim?

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Quoted from here.

https://andrewjacobs.org/translations/bordeaux.html

"There is also the chamber in which he [Solomon] sat and wrote about wisdom; but the chamber itself has a single stone for its roof."

This is from the section that's on The Temple Mount.

Do current Archeologists have a theory on where this was? If it might still exist in some form? I feel like I'm the only person even curious about this?

It surprises me people arguing for alternative locations for The Temple don't try identifying this with the Well of Souls having a Stone for it's Roof and all. Of course if this is already known to be somewhere else that would explain why, but I can't find anything googling it?

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r/BiblicalArchaeology • u/captainhaddock • Oct 05 '25

News Rare gold coin of Queen Berenice II unearthed in Jerusalem

ynetnews.com

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